Editide started when Sue and John began offering editing services from their home in 2006. Thanks to the good will of their many clients, the business thrives and continues to grow. Like any service, Editide cannot answer all needs. Many of our clients require services in addition to copy editing and graphic design, such as developmental editing, coaching, assistance with statistics, customized web development, expert coding, fact checking, and transcription. We are happy to refer people to excellent sources.
Meet the Team
John Morris
Billing and Technical Support
Formatting, Editing, and Graphic Design
johnjeff@editide.us
888-259-8216, ext. 808
John’s degree is in Engineering Physics from Cornell University. His experience as an editor hails from the early ’90s, when he helped produce a magazine about computers, wrote articles, did production work, and provided technical assistance. His careers have included dancer, intentional community financial administrator, construction worker, and environmentalist.
John enjoys parenting and grandparenting, helping the children through their many practical tribulations.
His main thrust politically is environmentalism. He works to reduce the carbon imprint of the household and has plans for a microhydroelectric installation that will provide electricity for all its members. He works with the Marshfield Energy Committee and advocates for a simple lifestyle, eschewing materialism and the consumer culture.
John loves to snowboard, ski, and bike. He has lived in Belgium for a year and traveled in Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, England, France, Gibraltar, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and across the United States several times. His favorite place to be is home.
Sue Morris
Sue’s degree in Dramatic Arts and Speech is from Rutgers University. Her experience as an editor hails from the 1960s, when she edited dissertations for graduate students. Her intermittent careers have been, most importantly, mother, then dance director and historian, intentional community administrator, construction worker, and dramatist. She enjoys editing, politics, and building the earthship in which she and John live. As a mother, she has 5 children and enjoys visiting her grandchildren.
Political interest has been strong since childhood. Sue performed at peace rallies in the ’60s and participated in civil rights demonstrations, including at the famous “I have a dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington DC. She worked with the United Farm Workers, with the gay and lesbian Right to Marry Taskforce, and Occupy Central Vermont.
Sue has traveled in many parts of the world, including living in Chile for a year and traveling in Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, France, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, and across the United States numerous times. She finds southern Utah to be the most beautiful place she has been.
Sue has written a reader’s theater play of African American poetry and a science fiction story.
Sue and John met as dancers while Sue directed Teen Two-Step and Worldance, arranging cultural exchanges between Vermont teenage dancers and teenagers in Russia, England, Newfoundland, and Costa Rica. Sue formed Galopede to present traditional New England dance in period costume at local venues, and danced in France, Belgium, Ecuador, Canada and New England with the Green Mountain Volunteers. She directed cultural exchanges between younger dancers from India, Mexico, Bulgaria, and Japan and their Vermont counterparts. Sometimes, she teaches international folk dance at the Old Schoolhouse Common to local people of all ages.
Both Sue and John have rehabilitated old houses, and following John’s lead, Sue is now interested in environmental issues. The couple is building the earthship in which they live, a green building that uses recycled building materials and passive solar techniques.